But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
KHALED HOSSEINIYou see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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